Education in Kazakhstan

The Environment

Our country enjoys the diversity of climate and environment. We have got different forests including pine-tree forests and mixed forests. We have as well got rivers and sea coast. There are plains, but there are hilly places as well and mountains. There are caves and marshes, and long sandy dunes, and meadows covered with hundreds of flowers.

I love my country and its nature because it gives possibility for all kinds of activities. As there are forests, people here can hunt, pick mushrooms and berries and have picnics in any season. There are numerous rivers and lakes so people can swim, bathe, fish and lie in the sun. We enjoy picking up snowdrops and dandelions, listening to birds singing.

But this beauty is so fragile! There are so many ecological problems, both global and regional. The problems of the environment are now deeply studied all over the world and in Russia as well. Most scientists carrying research on climate change agree that human activities are causing an increase in “greenhouse gases” in the Earth’s atmosphere. As a result, global temperatures are rising. The most important greenhouse gas is carbon dioxide, which is released when we burn fossil fuels, such as oil, gas or coal.